"I'm
not taking anything off the table," she said Thursday when asked if
she's gearing up for another run, but "that's not my number one item
that I'm looking at right now, either."

She assured a friendly
audience during an interview with Fox News' "Hannity," she won't be
silent, and she won't leave the political stage.

"There's just a
time when you've served, and then it's time to move on," Bachmann
explained. "I'm not retiring. I'm not going silent. I'm not quitting my
public involvement. In fact, I may run for another public office. That
could happen, but for right now, I'm going to find another perch in
order to be able to weigh in on these matters. Sometimes you be more
effective on the outside than the inside."

The staunchly conservative Bachmann also took the opportunity to tear into the "radical left" for targeting her so persistently.

"They
certainly don't want to see conservative women be able to articulate
our views to the American people," she explained, "and I think that's
what they want to do: they want to silence the African Americans who are
conservatives, Latinas who are conservative, conservative women. They
certainly want to silence our voice."

Bachmann, who chairs the
Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill, also decried the "serial lawlessness"
coming out of the Obama administration, particularly the news that the
IRS had targeted conservative groups for excessive scrutiny during the
2012 election.

To have "the political machinery of the government directed as
an attack machine against Americans based upon their political beliefs -
that's anathema to who we are," Bachmann said.

She also managed to sneak in some self-promotion, patting herself on the back as a "very strong voice taking on my own party."

"I
pushed back on the bailout," she said. "I was the champion of repealing
Obamacare and also dealing with this issue of the IRS."

Bachmann's opposition to Obamacare is well-documented, but her provocative rhetoric has occasionally landed her in hot water.

"Let's
repeal this failure before it literally kills women, kills children,
kills senior citizens," said Bachmann. "Let's not do that. Let's love
people. Let's care about people. Let's repeal it now while we can."